Man arrested for paying with real $50

'Front side of the bill was off center and it didn't feel like a normal bill'

Published: 05/02/2012 at 12:57 AM

(Shelbyville Times-Gazette) — What officers thought was a counterfeit $50 bill turned out to be an old, legitimate bill, but the truth wasn’t discovered until a man was mistakenly charged and jailed Friday.

A clerk at Quik Mart, South Cannon Boulevard, notified police after the marker used to detect counterfeit bills didn’t check as real.

“The front side of the bill was off center and it didn’t feel like a normal bill, it did look to be counterfeit,” officer Brock Horner said in his report.